After more than 15 years without a regular public bus service, the people of Mangakino and Whakamaru will now have the chance to make use of a three-day a week service to the next major town, Tokoroa – thanks to a new service opening today.

Transporting quarry aggregate to Auckland by barge is one way of reducing road congestion on the accident blackspot State Highway 2, says the chairman of Environment Waikato’s Regional Land Transport Committee, Angus Macdonald.